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Mal Peet Quotes

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead? Picture Quote #1

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film Picture Quote #1

Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them Picture Quote #1

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children’s writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull Picture Quote #1

It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I’m a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I’m a female pop celebrity who’s pregnant. It’s a completely mad way to spend your time Picture Quote #1

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer Picture Quote #1

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The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ recently published by Penguin, was voted ‘Time Magazine’’s book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith Picture Quote #1

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past Picture Quote #1

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare’s plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them Picture Quote #1

I don’t really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature Picture Quote #1

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing Picture Quote #1

Normally, I’m a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy Picture Quote #1

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The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer Picture Quote #1

Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn’t. Or wasn’t. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist Picture Quote #1

History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We’re not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar Picture Quote #1

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together Picture Quote #1

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So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead? (Mal Peet Quotes) I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film. (Mal Peet Quotes) Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them (Mal Peet Quotes) Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children’s writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. (Mal Peet Quotes) It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I’m a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I’m a female pop celebrity who’s pregnant. It’s a completely mad way to spend your time. (Mal Peet Quotes) Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer. (Mal Peet Quotes) The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ recently published by Penguin, was voted ‘Time Magazine’’s book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. (Mal Peet Quotes) I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past (Mal Peet Quotes) Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare’s plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them. (Mal Peet Quotes) I don’t really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature (Mal Peet Quotes) Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing. (Mal Peet Quotes) Normally, I’m a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy. (Mal Peet Quotes) The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer (Mal Peet Quotes) Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn’t. Or wasn’t. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist (Mal Peet Quotes) History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We’re not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar (Mal Peet Quotes) Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together (Mal Peet Quotes)